Nancy, for all her talk about the quality of her home life and child raising, is so short changing her children on disipline and education. For a woman who gets up every 2 hours to stoke the stove, why the hell couldn't she get up and get the kids to daycare and go to work? Yet, after she flauts the rules, she explodes when Michael insists the children go back to school after her "home schooling".

Kristy, who seemed to struggle the most with the rural life and had to deal with Keith being an ass, actually had a better "family" than Nancy. As structured and as rigid as it seemed, they were more of a family. Nancy in her "the man shouldn't do this, the man shouldn't do that" way of thinking undermined Kieth's ablity to be a father and a partner in the family. For all her talk of being more open, she was far more narrow minded.

Vacation Swap - I'm guessing it's the american version of Holiday Showdown on BBCAmerica. It should be a hoot.